MSI detection and its pitfalls in CMMRD syndrome in a family with a bi-allelic MLH1 mutation.

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Serval ID
serval:BIB_447CA800790A
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Publication sub-type
Case report (case report): feedback on an observation with a short commentary.
Collection
Publications
Title
MSI detection and its pitfalls in CMMRD syndrome in a family with a bi-allelic MLH1 mutation.
Journal
Familial cancer
Author(s)
Nguyen A., Bougeard G., Koob M., Chenard M.P., Schneider A., Maugard C., Entz-Werle N.
ISSN
1573-7292 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
1389-9600
Publication state
Published
Issued date
10/2016
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
15
Number
4
Pages
571-577
Language
english
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article
Publication Status: ppublish
Abstract
The constitutional MisMatch Repair deficiency (CMMRD) syndrome is one of the inherited cancer predisposition syndromes. More than two-third patients belonging to a CMMRD family are diagnosed mainly in the first decade with brain cancers and/or hematological malignancies. This syndrome is due to bi-allelic germline mutations in genes of the MMR pathway (MLH1, MSH2, MSH6 or PMS2). Our family report begins with the index case presenting initially with a medulloblastoma, which was even the two relapses in complete remission, when she was diagnosed for an AML. She died after bone marrow transplantation from toxicity. The family history was progressively established when her uncle was diagnosed for a colonic cancer and a cousin for a brain tumor. Surprisingly, her father had an atypical sarcoma but her brother also presented a lymphoma followed by a gliomatosis cerebri. A new MLH1 bi-allelic mutation was identified in this family. More than the diagnostic difficulties, this family report illustrates the complexity of the microsatellite instability detection in CMMRD patients, which has to be discussed further to a more accurate diagnosis in the pediatric setting, and address the question of the proper diagnostic tool to use in such genetic background with hypermutated tumors.

Keywords
Childhood brain cancers, MLH1, MMR deficiency, MSI
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Web of science
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